New York magazine fake-profiles fake memoirist Margaret Seltzer.
“You write a memoir these days, and someone’s always trying to outdo you. It’s an arms race. Just when you outrun the tsunami, cradling a baby under each arm, you look back and some joker is surfing on that mother, with a whole bandolier of babies across her chest, and she’s juggling flaming torches and a chainsaw to boot. It’s mad crazy on these streets.”
Author Colson Whitehead also gets a brief audience with raised-by-wolves memoirist Misha DiFonseca, currently writing a prequel “about her time on the run from the Armenian genocide, when she was taken in by ferrets.”
And as hard as I laughed while reading the story, I laughed harder reading the comments.
(Via GalleyCat.)
1 response so far ↓
C.D. Reimer // April 23, 2008 at 3:45 pm
You can now get a CNN T-shirt that says “Baby falls 20 feet onto postal worker.” Raining babies is real news.
Leave a Comment